Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 edition. Excerpt: ... CROSSING TO ASIA 177 suppose that thus early he foresaw altogether even what Hellenes would effect for his own selfish end of Empire, is to rank him with the Prophets. But to say that he had learned from his father's and his own experience that a base on which Hellene and Macedonian would fuse firmly together must be outside the traditional home of either; that the Hellene would prove of even greater service in the holding of Empire than in the conquering thereof; and that with a view to both these considerations the Hellene's commercial interest must be appealed to, and his commercial aptitudes utilized--this is only to place Aristotle's pupil early in his precocious life among the more enlightened minds of his own day. Alexander came, then, in this April of 334, to the shore of the Dardanelles, with an ambition to possess all Persia as already he possessed all Greece. He was captain of the Hellenes, full of faith in the Hellenic nationality, and most desirous, in the interests of security as well as of sentiment, that enforced obedience might give place through the gods and himself to some such willing recognition of his own preeminence as Pericles had enjoyed awhile at Athens. His mood was of the most exalted and romantic; he crossed and landed with the strictest Heroic usage, solemnly visited Ilium, and went through a whole archaistic masque as another Achilles.1 And when 1 He even returned after Granicus, and promoted the squalid village to be a free city by way of thanksgiving (Strabo, p. 593); and it is probably the ruin of this New Ilium that Schliemann a few days later he found himself for the first time face to face with his foe, scorning, as a Hero might, all counsels of caution, he charged forthwith with a rush of horsemen...
